@dionb
Just to clarify the faulty SIO is on another motherboard I got last week (actually got a complete white PC tower in nice condition), I am sure that is a P3 533 though i don't know which type because I didn't remove the heatsink from the CPU yet. There is a sticker on the back of the tower with the spec printed on it which says PIII 533 so that will be what it is because the rest of the spec seems to match the sticker. I don't recall which motherboard it is either but it's an unusual looking one. It is a mini ATX board, has 3x PCI and what I thought was an 1x AGP until I realised it had a modem card plugged into the rear half of it and it's like 2 smaller brown CNR type connectors in line with each other. I will post some pics of that tomorrow as I have not seen such a thing before.
When i say the SIO is short, actually the PC will not start up at all (the ATX PSU does not get the turn on signal even though I have 5V on the start button pin. If i force the PSU on then I get 0000 on my post test card. I worked out it is the SIO which is faulty because the CMOS battery was completely flat like 0.02V which is unusual. So I used my bench PSU to supply 3.2V to the battery connector and checked with my multimeter on uA range to see how much current it was drawing. A good SIO normally draws about 1-3uA when the motherboard is powered off. This one goes to OL on the 200uA range. I don't have the correct variant SIO chip (W83627F-AW) in stock so I have ordered some.
So in the meantime I was wondering if I can use that CPU to test this motherboard, as I don't have any other Socket 370 CPU in my stash of goodies. I guess from the replies, this will depend on exactly what the CPU is. I think it is the green type with a glass die in the middle.